Projects:

Edcamp Philly (Co-Organizer and Co-Founder)

• What is Edcamp? http://vimeo.com/16592733
• Our Edcamp TEDx Talk!!
• Edcamp in the Philadelphia Inquirer

The Edcamp Foundation - 501(c)(3) -- Executive Board Secretary

The EngDo Collaborative (Creator)

• A Community and Resource Sharing Site for K12 English/Language Arts Educators

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My PLN

• Twitter (@ritzius2)
• Google Reader
• EC Ning
• The EngDo Collaborative

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Education & Experience:

Authentic Education (2012-present)

• Consultant

Lindenwold High School & Lindenwold Middle School (2009-2012)

• Supervisor of English/Language Arts & English as a Second Language
• Teacher of 11th Grade - British Literature (09-10)
• Teacher of Strategies for Striving Readers (10-11)

Triton Regional High School (2005-2009)

• British Lit
• 9th Grade Intro to Lit
• Read 180

St. Andrew's College - Dublin, Ireland (2005)

• Practicum Experience through The College of New Jersey

Wilmington University

• MA in Educational Leadership (May 2008-Dec 2008)
• EdD in Organizational Leadership (Fall 2010 - present)

The College of New Jersey

• BA in Secondary Education and English (2001-2005)

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Presentations:

• NJEA Teacher's Convention (Nov. 2010) - Using Google Forms to Create Self-Grading Formative Assessments
• EdCamp Philly (May 2010) - Wiki Wiki What? An Introduction to Wikispaces in Education
• Edcamp Philly (May 2011) - Classrooms in the Cloud
• Edcamp NYC (Dec 2010) We Do, Do You? Introducing the EngDo and SciDo Collaboratives
• Rowan Literacy Consortium (Spring 2011) -- Literacy Across the Curriculum Project
• NJEA Technology Conference (Summer 2011) -- Voicethread --
• NJPSA Leadership Conference (Fall 2011) -- Using Google Documents to Facilitative Effective, Sustainable, and Inspiring Professional Learning Communities

• ASCD Annual Conference (March 2012) -- It's Magic! Edcamp Style Professional Development Engages and Empowers Teachers
• ASCD Annual Conference (March 2012) -- Creating a Literacy Classroom in the Cloud
• SRI & ETTC at Stockton College (March 2012) - Creating a Communicative Classroom
• West Essex Technology Symposium (March 2012) - Podcasting with Audacity
• NJEA & Kean University (May 2012) - Web 2.0 Toolbelt